Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
7 (A)Hear, O Yahweh, when I call with my voice,
And be gracious to me and (B)answer me.
8 On Your behalf my heart says, “(C)Seek My face,”
“Your face, O Yahweh, (D)I shall seek.”
9 (E)Do not hide Your face from me,
Do not turn Your slave away in (F)anger;
You have been (G)my help;
(H)Do not abandon me and do not (I)forsake me,
O God of my salvation!
10 [a]For my father and (J)my mother have forsaken me,
But (K)Yahweh will take me up.
11 (L)Instruct me in Your way, O Yahweh,
And lead me in a (M)level path
Because of [b]my foes.
12 Do not give me over to the [c](N)desire of my adversaries,
For (O)false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as (P)breathe out violence.
13 [d]I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the (Q)goodness of Yahweh
In the (R)land of the living.
14 (S)Hope in Yahweh;
Be (T)strong and let your heart take courage;
Hope in Yahweh.
Yahweh Sends Gideon to Save Israel
11 Then (A)the angel of Yahweh came and sat under the [a]oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the (B)Abiezrite as his son (C)Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to [b]preserve it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, O mighty man of valor.” 13 Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His wondrous deeds which our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But (D)now Yahweh has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” 14 Then Yahweh turned to him and said, “(E)Go in this strength of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” 15 (F)But he said to Him, “O Lord, with what shall I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the least in (G)Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” 16 (H)But Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike down Midian as one man.” 17 So [c]Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your eyes, then do (I)a sign for me that it is You who speak with me. 18 Please do not depart from here until I come back to You, and I bring out my offering and lay it before You.” And He said, “I will remain until you return.”
19 So Gideon went in and (J)prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an [d]ephah of flour; he put the meat in a basket [e]and the broth in a pot and brought them out to him under the [f]oak and presented them. 20 And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock and pour out the broth.” And he did so. 21 Then the angel of Yahweh put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and (K)fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of Yahweh went away from before his eyes. 22 (L)And Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh, so [g]he said, “Alas, O Lord Yahweh! For now I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face.” 23 And Yahweh said to him, “Peace to you. Do not fear; you shall not die.” 24 So Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh and named it [h]Yahweh is Peace. To this day it is still (M)in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
6 (A)Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things (B)the wrath of God comes upon (C)the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be (D)partakers with them, 8 for (E)you were formerly (F)darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as (G)children of light 9 (for (H)the fruit of that light consists in all (I)goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 [a](J)trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 (K)And do not participate in the unfruitful (L)works of (M)darkness, but instead even [b](N)expose them. 12 For it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things become visible (O)when they are [c]exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. 14 For this reason [d]it says,
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